Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.3078

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**Kesava Jātaka** (No. 346).—The ascetic **Kesava** lived in Himavā with five hundred pupils. The Bodhisatta, having been born as **Kappa**, a brahmin of **Kāsī**, joined him and became his senior pupil. When the ascetics went to Benares for salt and vinegar, the king lodged them in his park and fed them, and when they returned to Himavā, persuaded Kesava to stay behind. Kesava fell ill of loneliness, and the five physicians of the king could not cure him. At his own request he was taken to the Himālaya by the king's minister, **Nārada**, and there, on seeing again his familiar haunts and his pupil Kappa, he immediately recovered, though his medicine was but the broth of wild rice.